From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 02/14] mm: Convert free_unref_page_list() to use folios
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 05:03:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPFikJrev44S9EIa@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <035c50f0-5bbf-4e57-bef1-aa4b55c7cfd7@arm.com>
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 03:29:59PM +0100, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> On 25/08/2023 14:59, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> > Most of its callees are not yet ready to accept a folio, but we know
> > all of the pages passed in are actually folios because they're linked
> > through ->lru.
> > @@ -2469,17 +2469,17 @@ void free_unref_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> > void free_unref_page_list(struct list_head *list)
>
> Given the function has *page* in the title and this conversion to folios
> internally doesn't actually change any behaviour, I don't personally see a lot
> of value in doing this conversion. But if the aim is that everything eventually
> becomes a folio, then fair enough.
It makes the next patch _way_ more obvious ;-) If you merge the two
patches together, almost every line changes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-01 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-25 13:59 [RFC PATCH 00/14] Rearrange batched folio freeing Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 01/14] mm: Make folios_put() the basis of release_pages() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 14:21 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-01 3:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-01 8:14 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 02/14] mm: Convert free_unref_page_list() to use folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 14:29 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-01 4:03 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-09-01 8:15 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 03/14] mm: Add free_unref_folios() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 14:39 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/14] mm: Use folios_put() in __folio_batch_release() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 14:41 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 05/14] memcg: Add mem_cgroup_uncharge_folios() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 14:49 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 06/14] mm: Remove use of folio list from folios_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 14:53 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/14] mm: Use free_unref_folios() in put_pages_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/14] mm: use __page_cache_release() in folios_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/14] mm: Handle large folios in free_unref_folios() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 15:21 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-01 4:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/14] mm: Allow non-hugetlb large folios to be batch processed Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 15:28 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-01 4:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/14] mm: Free folios in a batch in shrink_folio_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-09-04 3:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-01-05 17:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/14] mm: Free folios directly in move_folios_to_lru() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 15:46 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-01 4:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/14] memcg: Remove mem_cgroup_uncharge_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 18:26 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-25 13:59 ` [RFC PATCH 14/14] mm: Remove free_unref_page_list() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 18:27 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-30 18:50 ` [RFC PATCH 15/18] mm: Convert free_pages_and_swap_cache() to use folios_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-30 18:50 ` [RFC PATCH 16/18] mm: Use a folio in __collapse_huge_page_copy_succeeded() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-30 18:50 ` [RFC PATCH 17/18] mm: Convert free_swap_cache() to take a folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 18:49 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-08-30 18:50 ` [RFC PATCH 18/18] mm: Add pfn_range_put() Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2023-08-31 19:03 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-01 4:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-01 7:59 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-04 13:25 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] Rearrange batched folio freeing Ryan Roberts
2023-09-05 13:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-05 13:26 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-09-05 14:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-06 3:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-06 10:23 ` Ryan Roberts
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